Search results for query: *

I think it would be quite preposterous to seriously entertain the idea that Game Freak’s art team is motivated by anything so passive aggressive as a desire to spite a tiny micro-segment of the fandom through a design. That’s just parasocial shit.

On the other hand, it was silly to have Murkrow, Slugma, et al. not be found in Johto in the first place :woo: To be fair, they laser-focused on New York for Unova rather than trying to condense all of the U.S. into a region, so in theory, they could do something similar for other large...

Well, I’d argue that that’s not “all it takes,” because there is still a further distinction between Baby Pokémon and Type: Null and Cosmog — the latter two are not, themselves, produceable through breeding, which is the mechanic that Baby Pokémon are the most relevant to in the first place.

Most likely, yeah, but just on balance, if they’re already presented as travelers, then we can’t really say for sure that they were from Paldea to begin with, and didn’t just obtain that crystal while passing through Paldea from somewhere else. (Come to think of it, Paldea’s other Legendary...

The main games have never used the term, but it is still a discernible category of some form based on Egg Groups. There’s a reason why Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Togepi, Tyrogue, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby, Azurill, Wynaut, Budew, Chingling, Bonsly, Mime Jr., Happiny, Munchlax, Riolu, Mantyke, and...

It’s especially tortured considering that the Loyal Three, Ogerpon, and Pecharunt aren’t even from Kitakami (each hailing instead from unknown regions), while Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, and Terapagos actually are from Paldea, even though a differentiated...

I sort of understand not counting Pokémon that have baby stages as middle evolutions, because man, the very notion of Baby Pokémon as a category really just doesn’t have much meaning anymore, so it’s at least a small way to acknowledge them being kind of a separate thing… but for the most part...

Dunsparce becoming some kind of badass dragon would essentially just be making it Magikarp 4.0, which just feels really uninspired to me compared to finding a way to accentuate its inherent silliness. It’s a minor thing, certainly not to the extent of spikes and pointy chins, but I do think...

I feel like when people usually say they want Dragonite to look more like Dragonair, they’re picturing a sort of branch evo type of thing where you more-or-less dispense with Dragonite’s design altogether and make some elegant blue serpentine alternative. Problem is, I doubt that GF had any...

Just to be clear, I have no clue about either of things myself :psysly: I’m completely winging it with my phonetics transcriptions, and I don’t actually know how any of the Berry names are officially pronounced. It just happened to be on my mind because I saw an old thread somewhere the other...

Just to be clear, I have no clue about either of things myself :psysly: I’m completely winging it with my phonetics transcriptions, and I don’t actually know how any of the Berry names are officially pronounced. It just happened to be on my mind because I saw an old thread somewhere the other...

As a sort of offshoot question from the thread prompt, what about how you say Berry names? I actually find myself wondering about those more often than Pokémon names, because it’s at least much more common to hear how Pokémon names are said in things like animation and promotional material...

I watched through a video of how to pronounce each Pokémon’s name, just to sort of take stock of where my pronunciations sit against the official word. I don’t feel like it’s really worth mentioning instances where I maybe slightly deviate from the standard due to me being a wet-brain flesh man...

I was actually thinking the same thing when the Wo-Chien raids started. Would’ve been a nice little change of pace. I like the Tera Raid Battle theme, but using the Treasures’ own music would have made these raids feel a bit more eventful.

Yeah, this was kinda my thought on it too — I feel like it’d be really weird for most peoples’ first experience with any new wave of Pokémon to be in the context of battle mechanics that don’t then translate to turn-based / Champions, because you’d basically have to learn two entirely different...

I’m pushing the boat out here because I doubt they’d do this even though it’d be fun, but maybe one of the options could be Invert Type Matchups, since Inverse Battles originated in X & Y.

Looks like we got confirmation of Champions being free-to-start in today’s press release. “Pokémon Champions is a free-to-start game coming to Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices in 2026. More details on a paid digital version of Pokémon Champions on Nintendo Switch 2 and...

Why do Poltchageist and Sinistcha’s forms have different names? Usually, with evolution lines where both stages have different forms following the same theme, the names for those forms are the same across both stages. For example, Shellos and Gastrodon = West Sea and East Sea. Burmy and...

I’ve never liked how inconsistent their approach to Shinies for fused Pokémon is. Kyurem, as you and pika pal have covered, takes on Kyurem’s own Shiny coloration for the body, but then only Shiny Black Kyurem takes Shiny Zekrom’s green electricity into account, whereas Shiny White Kyurem...

I would agree with that for the main generational titles, but if Legends: Arceus (with 7 new Pokémon, 17 Hisuian Forms, and Origin Formes for Dialga and Palkia — so essentially 26 new designs) was any indication, Legends games, much like most mid-generation releases before them, may just not...